Media monitoring reports

RTRS at 12.00 - Dragan Cavic, RS President, holds a meeting with the representatives of Bosniak and Croat peoples at RS NA.The meeting has commenced at 12:00 hrs. According to RTRS reporter, the following officials have showed up at the meeting: Slobodan Popovic from SDP of BiH, Tomislav Tomljanovic from NHI, Dzevad Osmancevic from SDA.

BH Radio 1 at 12.00 by Jelena Kisic – EC Enlargement Commission, Olli Rehn, met with the members of BiH Presidency today. On this occasion, he stressed out that BiH did achieve some progress on its path to EU, though slowly. He described the talks with the Presidency as intensive and assuring that when it comes to key issues, such as Euro-Atlantic [...]

Vecernje novosti cover and pg. 5 ‘There is no BiH without Srpska’ by M. Labus - All Ministers and Deputy Ministers at BiH CoM, who are members of PDP, have resigned or will resign latest by Tuesday, as it was decided at a session of the Main Board of PDP party held in Banja Luka on Saturday.

BHT 1 - RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic resigned from his post on Friday, stating he is not ready to accept and implement “threats and demands” by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown on changing the RS and BiH constitutional organization by seriously violating the constitution as the country's most important legal act. Current RS Government wi [...]

FENA - Spokesperson for the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Cristina Gallach, says the yesterday's decisions of the HR and EUSR, Paddy Ashdown, represent important steps towards cleaning up of elements that obstruct the cooperation with the ICTY. Gallach says that without considerable progress in cooperation with the [...]

Onasa, Dec 16 – Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic must be tried in The Hague, Washington’s special war crimes envoy Pierre-Richard Prosper said today. The US position is unchanged, Prosper told media, adding that reports of an offer for Karadzic and Mladic to be tried in Serbia were completely untrue.

BH Radio 1 - FBiH House of Representatives holds the extraordinary session today, at which they have agreed with the terms of three IDA credits for employment and social sector offered to the Federation by the World Bank. IDA credits for employment and social sector. They also adopted the information on the credit loans taken by the Federation of B [...]

Herceg Bosna Radio - Ljubo Beslic has been elected the Mayor of Mostar by the Mostar City Council today. Beslic was supported by 21 councillors. In a brief statement to RHB, Mayor Beslic promised that the Mostar City administration would work to the best of its abilities, noting that the City administration would have to respond to many challenges [...]

BH Radio 1, Herceg Bosna Radio - The Police Reform Commission has continued its session today. The HR Paddy Ashdown stated that unless the members of the PRC come up with the proposal with the regard to police structure until Wednesday, he will announce the solution on Thursday.

BHT - Sarajevo Canton Police confirmed that one of the arrested kidnappers has been kept in custody. Police investigation is still ongoing. FTV comments that this case is a proof that a new form of organized crime is occurring in BIH. FBIH MoI doesn’t have a special unit of kidnapping cases. According to Magbul Skoro, Spokesperson of Sarajevo Canto [...]